Quotes About Self-improvement

Never aspire to be or become anyone right here or out there. Listen up, it is okay to appreciate someone who is doing good. But, you should not aspire to be like him or her. Yes! just aspire to be a role model to others. -Emeasoba George

Never aspire to be/become anyone right here/out there. Listen up, it's good to appreciate someone. But, never aspire to be like him/her. Just aspire to be a model to others.

Never be bothered about criticisms. For, people ought to get at you and even put you down. So, expect to be criticized subtly and repeatedly by people.

Never be bothered about criticisms. For, people ought to get at you & even put you down i.e. expect to be criticized subtly and repeatedly by people.

Never get too relaxed with who you are currently or with what you have achieved so far. Because, you may miss to become who you aspire to be or fail to achieve what you can still achieve. ~Emeasoba George

To do oneself justice is just to perform as well as one is able. Take this from me, whoever that does justice to himself/herself/his or her work/career can't and won't be bothered about criticisms no matter the acuteness of the criticism. Anyway, have you been doing justice to yourself/work/career?

You've got to stop dwelling on what went wrong. That is to say, your past life, mistakes and failures. Rather, start focusing on what to do next. As well, dare to speak words of encouragement and motivation to yourself as often as possible. ~Emeasoba George

što nam ljudi više okre?u le?a, više rade na našem usavršavanju: napuštaju?i nas, oni nas spasavaju.

Educating yourself not to leave traces is a moment-by-momcnt war against yourself, solely to prove that you could, if you chose, become a sage….

I'd assumed that once I'd passed the age of twenty, I'd gained the power to do everything alone. But I'd been wrong about that, and this just brought it home to me, again, that I still had a long way to go.

want to be overwhelmed, too, while I'm still not too old. I want to be blown away by greatness. Because I've started wanting to become a better person, now, even just a little bit better.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Yet even this turned out to be helpful, since recognizing my jerkdom is how I remember that is not who I want to be.

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Remember, goals are stars to steer by, not sticks with which to beat ourselves.

If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. —SAM KEEN, AUTHOR

All underearners, without question, share one common trait: a high tolerance for low

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I see a real yogi as a someone who is committed to growth and to being the best version of themselves, and, at the same time, is courageous enough to be fully present and authentic in each moment. Someone who is not afraid to get real about the whole mess of who they are - the good, the bad, and the ugly

I am much better without tobacco, and already have a difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be. Even to call him up, as it were, and regard him without prejudice is a difficult task, for we forget the old selves on whom we have turned our backs, as we forget a street that has been reconstructed.

When we make a conscious effort to be our best selves and to set aside our differences, we encourage our loved ones to do the same. The reward is lasting, loving relationships.